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Unlike the Macintosh, the Apple IIGS carried on the hacker tradition of providing open expansion slots. The freedom of hardware expansion choice went away with the Mac; not surprisingly, I switched to PCs in 1992...they still had slot architectures, and that expansion capability has served the industry well.
"We at Lynx are professionals, unlike Sinclair with their 9v barrel connector, so instead we use a DIN plug with a mixture of +5v, -5v and +12v"
Atari 260ST: R.O.P. Mein zweites PD-Programm.
Once upon a long time ago I've wrote some smaller programs and shared it as shareware or wrote it for me and fun. #Atari #AtariST #retrocomputer #retrocomputing #computers #vintagecomputer
I have no idea where the sticky brown goo came from (or even what it is exactly) but it has leaked down all over the tape drives and the front of the cabinet!
IBM PS/2 E, front panel open to reveal the slim floppy drive (the same used in some contemporary thinkpad models) and the two front pcmcia slot for expansion.
recupero di quattro sistemi SGI Onyx, tre Reality Engine2 con cpu r4400 e una Infinite Reality con processori R10000
IBM PS/2 E, opening the case of the system, just one clip under the front panel and the whole cover slide out.
E mais um ORIC ATMOS, este com uma interface controladora de disquetes alternativa e ligada a uma unidade de 3,5".
IBM PS/2 E, first powerup after years, 162 - cmos checksum error, the battery (standard cr2032) was dead.
This is possibly my oldest 5.25 diskette (disk 1 was destroyed somehow, or went bad during normal use). My first box of 10 diskettes cost something like US $30.00, and we had to buy them in Hong Kong (our family had moved to Taiwan from the US just as the Apple II was starting to become popular). The year was 1979.
Before booting these diskettes, I check them for mold...that will destroy a disk drive very quickly.